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Clive Coleman. wrote:
In message , Joyce Whitchurch
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I remember the driver of a double decker on one of those once a day
route variations having to do a three point turn in the entrance to a
farmer's field, somewhere outside Woodstock. That was over 30 years
ago.


Don't know about now, but then, it was illegal to reverse then until
you'd detrained.


The driver of an already-detrained bus blocking Chalk Farm Road a few weeks
ago told me that it is illegal to reverse a bus without police presence.



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On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 15:34:19 -0000, John Rowland wrote:

I remember the driver of a double decker on one of those once a day
route variations having to do a three point turn in the entrance to a
farmer's field, somewhere outside Woodstock. That was over 30 years
ago.


Don't know about now, but then, it was illegal to reverse then until
you'd detrained.


The driver of an already-detrained bus blocking Chalk Farm Road...


A debussed bus, surely?
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Clive Coleman. wrote:
In message , Joyce Whitchurch
writes
I remember the driver of a double decker on one of those once a day
route variations having to do a three point turn in the entrance to a
farmer's field, somewhere outside Woodstock. That was over 30 years
ago.


Don't know about now, but then, it was illegal to reverse then until
you'd detrained.


The driver of an already-detrained bus blocking Chalk Farm Road a few
weeks ago told me that it is illegal to reverse a bus without police
presence.


Thats why you _always_ see the police behind buses reversing out of bus
station bays all over the country is it?

Paul




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